[tharibo]

I play on Codingame on and off for some years now, and the fact is: it is a game. And this game is played by programming.

Thus, it is really good to try out a new language, because it is fun immediately.

Doing the contests is also really fun, since you are compelled to improve your program more and more. And if you're still new to programming, you experience very soon the problems coming with "poorly written code" (as poorly maintanable code).